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China is refusing to let EU diplomats conduct a "meaningful" visit to Xinjiang, while claiming EU sanctions over its Uighur persecution are based on "lies".

Like other European countries, the Czech Republic’s buildings are in need of renovation. Unlike others, it partly funds renovation programmes with revenues generated from the emission trading scheme (ETS), an experiment that could be replicated across the EU.

Britain, the EU, and Norway have reached a three-way deal on how much cod, haddock, plaice, whiting, herring, and saithe each can catch in the North Sea in the wake of Brexit on Tuesday. The pre-deal chaos had hit Danish fishermen the worst. "Danish fishermen will have access to Norwegian waters again ... Now they can actually make money again," Danish Fishermen Organisation Kenn Skau Fischer said, Reuters reports.

French authorities are investigating a new coronavirus mutation that has been detected in eight people in a hospital in Brittany western France, Reuters reported on Tuesday. It is still unclear if the variants may evade some testing, as patients had negative results from PCR tests, which then returned positive from blood samples or those taken from deep in the respiratory system. International agencies have been notified about this new variant.

British prime minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday the UK will prioritise diplomatic engagement with Asian countries as he unveiled a major shift in the country's foreign policy and defence priorities after Brexit. Johnson wants the UK to become a bigger player in the region, adding that he wanted a balanced approach to China. Johnson will also travel to India next month for his first major international visit since Brexit.

Belgian authorities on Tuesday arrested a Kosovo war crimes suspect, Pjetёr Shala, reports Reuters. Shala has been indicted by prosecutors at a special court in The Hague. The court is probing war crime allegations linked to Kosovo's 1998-1999 war for independence.

Britain will grow its nuclear warhead stockpile by more than 40 percent as it faces new technological threats, prime minister Boris Johnson said, Reuters reports. The country had previously been reducing its nuclear weapons stockpile, with a cap of 180 warheads for the mid-2020 period. Johnson scrapped the limit saying the number would now rise to a maximum of 260.

Covid has cut the number of high-frequency long-haul flight routes out of Europe from 61 to 19, according to data published by air-traffic control agency Euroclear Tuesday. 'High-frequency' routes mean three or more return flights between two airports in the same day. All high-frequency routes between Europe and Africa or South America were wiped out. Some 21 percent of long-haul routes (short or high-frequency) were wiped out entirely.

The European Medicines Agency has said that the benefits of AstraZeneca's vaccine continue to outweigh the risks - suggesting countries can continue using the British-Swedish jab. Several member states have suspended its use over blood-clot concerns.

The Hungarian tax initially imposed a rate of 50 percent of sales on the biggest networks. Critics saw this as an attack on RTL Klub, the country's most-watched commercial broadcaster, and as a way of undermining the free press.

Several hundred Frontex guards could be armed by the summer and deployed to EU member states that host its operations. An agreement has already been reached with Greece, says Frontex, the site of its biggest operation to date.

The NGO Klimaatzaak [Climate Case] is taking the Belgian, Flemish, Brussels and Walloon governments to court for breaching their climate obligations, arguing that inadequate climate policy constitutes a violation of standard of care, and human and children's rights.

For years, the EU's "united in diversity" motto has allowed policymakers to claim that conversations on race, religion, colour and ethnicity are foreign to European culture. But a colour-blind Europe is a fairy tale.

The UK is set to shift its focus from Europe to the Indo-Pacific region as part of a planned revamp of its foreign, trade and defence policy announced on Tuesday (16 March), which made scarce references to a future EU-UK...

Listening to European citizens should be a permanent and continuous process - not merely limited to one event which starts on 9 May 2021 and is to finish before the presidential elections in France in the spring of 2022.

“Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malnutrition should be routinely included in the management of COVID-19 patients” European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN)

Für ein Instagramfoto posiert Bachelorette Chanelle Wyrsch mit einem Seestern – und erntet dafür Kritik. Im Gespräch mit BLICK rechtfertigt sich die Bachelorette.

Die Geburtenzahlen fallen in den meisten Industrieländern – seit der Pandemie noch stärker als zuvor. Dagegen gäbe es ein einfaches Rezept. Doch das wollen viele nicht wahrhaben.

Der US-Fahrdienstvermittler Uber stellt seine Mitarbeiter in Grossbritannien von nun an als bezahlte Arbeiter ein - ein Novum für das US-Unternehmen.

US-Präsident Joe Biden hat sich für die Reform einer Prozedur ausgesprochen, die es einer Minderheit im US-Senat ermöglicht, viele Vorhaben der Mehrheit zu blockieren. Das Verfahren müsse nicht abgeschafft, aber erschwert werden, sagte Biden dem Sender ABC.